Short, Cheap, Nearly Great Books SE Denver: November 2023

Friday, November 17, 2023

Please read and join us for a discussion of This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill.

Find it on page 133 of The Best American Short Stories - 2020.

On line it is at https://www.newyorker.com/books/novellas/this-is-pleasure

Accoring to this review https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/this-is-pleasure-by-mary-gaitskill-review-metoo-story-nuance-empathy-363073 This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill is a #MeToo story full of nuance and empathy. It is set in an eerie borderland between pleasure and pain, intimacy and exploitation, a truth and a lie.

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Basic Guidelines for Shared Inquiry

Read the selection carefully before participating in the discussion. This ensures that all participants are equally prepared to talk about the ideas in the work.
Most of us need to read short stories more than once.
Support your ideas with evidence from the text. This keeps the discussion focused on understanding the selection and enables the group to weigh textual support for different answers.
Discuss the ideas in the selection and try to understand them fully before exploring issues that go beyond the selection. Reflecting on the ideas in the text and the evidence to support them makes the exploration of related issues more productive.
Listen to other participants and respond to them directly. Directing your comments and questions to other group members, not always to the leader, will make the discussion livelier and more dynamic.
Expect the leader to only ask questions. Effective leaders help participants develop their own ideas, with everyone gaining a new understanding in the process. Participants should look to the leader for questions, not answers.

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